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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
A PAIR OF SWINDLERS.
Two English Adventuresses Victimize the
Partisan Fortune Seekers.

Two English Adventuresses Victimize the
Partisan Fortune Seekers.
PARIS, Jan. 1.-Two English ad
venturesses have been arrested here,
charged with an original form of
swindling. The prisoners give the
names of Mrs. Linssy and Miss Eve
line Rappy. The latter is beautiful
woman and about 25 years of age.
Mrs. Linsay is older, not so comely,
and easily passed rs Miss Rappy's
mother or guardian, as occasion re-
Quired. The women caused to be pub
lished in responsible papers genteelly
written and cleverly constructed ad-
vertisements making it known that
young widow with million ster-
ling in her own right, or q rich
young girl who had made false step,
was desirous of forming marital al
lance with gentleman of the right
stamp, who could appreciate the situ-
alton, and who had means sufficient
to warrant that on his side the mar
riage was not entirely q specu-
lation. Several Frenchmen were
in turn introduced to Eveline
Rappy as result of these advertise.
ments, and she was put forth as the
young widow or the rich young girl,
according to the inclination Of the
suitor. She engaged herself to a mum.
Der OF these, managing to keep
alive thsir ardor until she had
exhausted their ability to make
presents, and successively married
several OF the more wealthy, securing
the best settlement possible and man
aging to escape with all the wedding
presents and other personal prop
erty obtainable within few
hours after the ceremony. 1t
has transpired that Miss Rappy
played this marriage trick with great
financial success on more than one
rich adventurer in England before she
is said that all of her numerous dupes
such high social or political position
that they have been ashamed to
seek redress of any kind. The police
do not mention the name of the
person who has brought the career
OF the two women to an end in
Paris, but when Miss Rappy was tax
en- into custody she was at a first class
hotel, living in grand suite Of rooms
IN style BETTING princess, and was
on the point of being married to
man who had already paid
right royalty for the betroth-
al and had invested snug
fortune in wedding presents. When
Miss Rappy realized that she was a
prisoner, she broke down and made g.
complete confession, giving the details
of all her exploits, with mention OF
dates, sums and names. She throws
all the blame for her conduct upon
Mrs. Linsay, who, she says, COM
Dlete]y controlled her
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
4 CABINET BRIDE.
Secretary Lamar Married at Macon-The
Report Authentic.

Secretary Lamar Married at Macon-The
Report Authentic.
Secretary Lamar, Notwithstanding
the report published few days ago
that no date had been fixed for the
ceremony, WAS married at Macon,
Ga, on the 5th. The story OF his
courtship has been told and told
again. and he has been much annoyed
at the publicity given to the matter.
The secret of the case is that Mrs
Holt's family was very much opposed
to the mat ca and would not listen to
the marriage OF their mother.
She is a lady OF considerable
estate, and that is understood to be
the reason. The courtship was
therefore one OF diplomacy, and the
secretary has succeeded in securing the
lady's hand, while the family has the
money. The bride is described to be
a lady of fine appearance and &C
omplishments, and those who know
her say she will adorn the cabinet cir
Gle. The President and the other
cabinet members have been as much
in the dark rs the public in regard to
the secretary sintentions, 8 and even his
own son has known nothing of them,
further than that they were in the di-
rection of matrimony to very i'm
petuous extent. Every one of his
friends has known that he wanted to
get married and that Mrs. Holt was
the lady, but everyone has been al
lowed to guess the situation, and has
done so very accurately.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
WISCONSIY PENSIONS.
Favorable Decisions by the Departme
tf

Favorable Decisions by the Department.
at Washington.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 3O.-Pen-
sions have been granted to the follow
ing citizens OF Wisconsin,.
Julia a, mother OF James j, Coddington,
Beaver Dam.
Hugh Owens, La Crosse.
Lewis Kleinkopf, Clintonvill>.
Jas. f. Mccoy, Mendora.
Gottheb f. Boetzel, Milton.
Goetlieb Bruner. Rodes' Corners.
Henry Thurm (restored), Racine.
Augustus Bogos Gncrease). Colebrook
Geo. Steckenbauer (restored), Baraboo.
Gunder HalverstOn Gncrease), Utica.
Christian Emery (increase), Baraboo.
Conrad Bates GDcrease), CLYDE.
Benz. f. Comar Gncrease), Richfand Cen
ter.
John T. Perry, Wriehtsville
Samuel j. Lyon (increase), Milton.
Geo. w. Baker (increase), Hancock.
Jacob Van Vleet, Arnott.
Maria. mother of Fritz Temple, New
Holstein.
Jacob j. Alexander, Fond du Lac.
Newton NJ. Baldwin Gncrease), Ontario.
Clark c. Edwards (increase), Humbird.
Dewitt c. Cady (increase), Beloit.
jeremiah w. Menter, Hersey.
Gabriel A, Lupient (incresse), Curtiss.
VIM. Fox (increase), Virogua.
Nicholas Berigan Qncrease), Fox Lake.
Mary Johnston, widow Of Samuel S.
Johnston, Green Bay.
John G. Welherby, Mauston.
John W. Hubert, Gucrease) Muscods.
Austin s. Beeraer, Cataract.
Michael Kaely, (increase) Albany.
Isaac F. league, Gncrease) Sparta.
Joseph Schiffner, (increase) Milwaukee.
Redmocc frindiAile, (increasel Madi-
son.
Geo. W. Lewis, Gncrease) Necedah.
Nelson Ponquette, l;ncrease) Arkansas.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
Tragic Use of Telephone.
From the st. James Gazette


If we are to believe q story told by
the Belgian correspondent OF the Figa-
70, the telephone has recently been
rut upon novel duty in Brussels under
circumstances OF an extremely tragic
character. A young lady of that city
mistook, it appears, the civilities Of q
young man who visited at her par
ents' house for attention of more Sc
rious nature. To her great surprise
and modification, however, sne
learned some little time ago that he
was engaged to one OF her friends.
Shortly after she made the discovery
the young man received q summons to
place himself in telephone rapport
with q friend who had something to
say to him. The friend turned out to
be the young lady who loved not wise
ly but, as the sequel shows, too well.
Without wasting time on prelimina-
ries, she asked him pointblank II it
was true that ne was going to marry
Mile. -? He replied that it was
quite true. "Then good-by forever" I"
were the next words which reached his
ears, and they were Immediately iol-
lowed by the report OF a firearm. The
poor girl had lodged revolver bullet
in her heart. She had thus, with the
aid OF the telephone, made the man
for whom she hadf sacrificed hersel as.
sist at her suicide, while putting 1t alb
solutely out OF his power to do any
thing to prevent it.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
The Power OF Steam.

ErCI1 Popular Science.
The experiments which were entered
upon for the purpose ofmeaeuripg the
force OF vapor of water were very i'm
portant and very dangerous; import
ant, because the safe workingof steam
engines was dependent upon correct
measurements of the force, and be-
cause all the properties of heat had to
be passed IN review; and dangerous,
because they imposed the task OF con-
fronting the unknown caprices of q
formidable force. There were but
two men to accept it and conduct it
to Success: Arago, who never shrank
from q duty; and Dulong, already
manned by an explosion, whose pre-
vious studies had admirably prepared
him for the new work. A rich mano-
meter was extemporized, and boiler,
far less staunch than theeteam boilers
OF to-day, was set up, in which water
was heated until it was twenty seven
atmospheres. They could 90 no fur
ther. At this extreme point, 1t leaked
at all the ioints, and the steam es-
capped through the fissures with a hiss
inc tnat was bad omen. But the
observers, though aware OF the dan
ger, silent and resigned, finished with
out accident the measurements which
they had begun. Telling NJ Jamin
the story, which was written out as
above from his dictation, Arago said:
"Only one being OF our company pre-
served his serenity and slept quietly:
it was DuloDgs dog; they called him
Op1JcrOr1 -
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
THE REVENTE M4KINE.

An Attempt to Place Its Officers on an
Equal Footing with Naval Officials.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 3.-Friends
of the officials employed in therevenue
marine service propose to make an
other attempt in Congress at an early
day to secure for them some OF the
privileges which their brother officers
In the navy enjoy. At present
revenue marine men are governed by
q strict military code and yet they
are regarded only as civil officers OF
the navy. IL the navy department
an officer who serves five years is en-
titled to an additional compensation
OF 10 per cent. after that Time, and
for each five years of service beyond
that an additional 10 per cent. is
added to his salary. In the
revenue marine service, however,
man who may be appointed to lieu
tenancy Or any other commissioned
rank draws the same pay the year he
leaves that service as he does when he
first enters, provided he receives no
promotion in the meantime. 1t
is as difficult for any one
to secure an appointment in
this branch OF the governmental
service as it is into either the army or
navy except that the appointments
are made from civil life and not from
an academy. Still the examinations
are Of the most rigid character, both
as to the mental and physical qualifi-
cations OF the applicant, and in all
other respects the navy rules apply.
The life of an officer in the revenue
marine service, too, is far more ardu-
Gus than chat OF his fellow in
the navy proper, for while the former
is confined to his ships year after year,
frequently without q charge of sta.
ton in a decade, the latter usually
has three years OF sea service and
then three years of shore duty, and
besides he is sent from place to place
which serves to break the monotony
of life on ship board. The
naval men, however, have strong in
iuences always ready to work in their
behalf among the social people Of
Washington, while the revenue marine,
being much smaller service, has few
friends at court, and in the past legis-
lation for its benefit has been exceed
lngly difficult 70 secure.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
Labor Notes.

Committees from the Brewers pool
and Brewers Union of st. Louis, set.
tied all their differences on the Sth,
and the strike which was begun last
September by the members OF the lat
ter has been ended. The strike was
the outcome OF the publication by the
pool Of set OF resolutions adopted
by the pool to the effect that unless
boycotts instituted by the union
against two local breweries were lifted,
all members OF the union would be
discharged. The men struck and have
remained out ever since. All, however,
left the city except sixty-nine. Those
will be reinstated and their names
will be stricken from the blacklist.
The mems wages have also been raised,
the previous maximum price being
now the minimum rate. 1nreturn for
this the union has lifted all the boy
colts against st. Louis breweries.
The wages question st the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works at Pittsburg
has been finally settled by the arbi-
tretion committee, and work will be
resumed in all departments. The new
scale advances wages on q general
average OF ] o per cent.
The trouble with the ship carpen-
ters at Detroit has been settled and
the men will resume work. 1t is said
the employers are to select their own
men, being influenced only by the COM
potency or incompetency OF the car
penters. The trouble has lasted
several months, during which time
men have been brought from other
points and then kept from working by
the knights OF Labor
All the collieries in the Wilkesbarre
region shipping over the New Jersey
Central Railroad were idle on the 4th,
except two, on account Of the strike
of the dock hands at Port Johnson
and Eiizabethport. The closing of the
mines has thrown out OF employment
5000 men and boys at the Lehigh
and Wilkesbarre company's mines;
45O at the Hanover company's; $50
at the Red Ash; 100 at the Bennett,
and 500 at the Parish company's
mines-s. total OF 500.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
CRUSHED AND BURNED.
Two Trains on the Baltimore & Ohio Col
lide Near Tiffin. O.

Two Trains on the Baltimore & Ohio Col
lide Near Tiftin, o.
AT 2 O'Clock on the morning OF the
4th, the west bound fast train. known
as the Erie express, on the Baltimore
& Ohio road, collided with g. freight
train one mile west of Republic, ..
The express does not make stop at
the town OF Republic, village of 900
inhabitants, nine miles west C Titiin,
and it is supposed hat it was cunning
st a speed OF not less than sixty miles
an hour. The freight eastward
bound had expected to make siding
at Republic and was probably making
a rate OF speed not less than
twenty miles an hour and
thus running in opposite direc-
tions on the same track caused
a telescope as clean cut and
disastrous as was ever witnessed. The
engines were run into each other as
one stove e-pipe fits into its mate, and
all that could be seen was one chaotic
mass OF brass, iron and steel The
fast train was composed Of FIVE sleep
ing cars and four coaches filled with
passengers. To add CONSERVATION TO
the horrible scene, fire broke out in
the smokIng-car and soon spread to
the other cars. Many were killed out
right, while others, wedged IN among
the broken cars, were slowly consumed
by the flames. The screams of the
wounded and dying were heartrend-
ing, but no assistance could
be given until q farmer, who
was awakened by the crash, came,
and, with other nelghbors, worked
like heroes to save the perishing. At
an early hour there were hundreds of
persons coming to the scene OF dis
aster ready and anxious to do what
they could for any of the unfortunate
sufferers who might need help, but it
appears that just as soon as the Bal
timore & Ohio agents could get to the
place where the wreck occurred, for
some reason they hastily carried out
OF the county the wounded, dying and
dead. 1t is believed that there were
at least twenty-five bodies burned in
to a slckening, crisp mass OF flesh and
bones, beyond all poesiblerecognition.
The names of those killed, SO far as
Unidentified are: G. p. Bradley, Wash
inetoD, d. c., burned to death: Joseph
Portlethwaite, aged 81, on his way to
Chillicothe, Mo; Spencer Portle-
chwaite. his son, aged Is, burned to
death; NJ. H. Parks, burned to death;
Fireman William Frederick, OF the ex-
press. The injured are: Baggage
master W. Z. Gates, OF Newark, \. J. !,
both legs hurt; Engineer Lem. East
man, OF the express, knee cut; Harry
Forester, of Chicago, scalp wounds
and bruises.
Conductor Fletcher says the engi-
neer OF the freight was drunk. His
name is Kyler. Conductor Haskell, OF
the passenger train, was in the sleeper,
and ran forward in time to receive
some papers from the dying men, Bal
lard and Parks. The piles of ashes
and debris to be seen at the place of
the collision are full of bones, remains
of iewelry and melted silver money.
Ten OF the killed are utterly unknown.
An old gentleman named Ferguson, of
Bloomdale, left Pittsburg on the ex-
press, and has not since been heard
from. The blame seems to be with
the crew of the freight.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
You Can Take Your Choice.

FROM the New 10rk Mall and Express.
In one Broadway store you can get
a fair Shakespeare for S275; or, if
your purse is large enough, you can 90
up TO the stupendous figure OF So, 500.
This, / think, is the highest on the
whole list, as it well may be. Con-
sulting the catalogue OF one house
only, i find Scott in sets from S67 to
$3.50; Cooper, from S15 to 1925; Car
lyle, from SO to 5000; Dickens, from
IS to S175; Thackeray, from S6.76
TO S165; Irving, from 81 75 to 1925,
and Hawthorne from $50 to $50.
The sale OF the expensive editions is,
OF course, limited, and the profit on
each set has TO be large. These books,
and many more, ranging from $50 to
$50, are in stock IN the principal
stores all the yesr round, but are
brought out only in the holiday sea-
son. and are then watched with
great deal Of care.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
SPOLIATION CLAIMS.
Only Few Days Left in Which to FIJI,

Only Few Days Left in Which to File
Them.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 4.-The
time for filing French spoliation
claims under the act of Congress of
January, 1885, will expire on the
goth of January, and it is prob
able that by that time a
great many cases will be still
unprepared and all hope will in
consequence depart OF ever securing
anything for many claimants for
losses incurred upwards of 100 years
ago. Up to the present time eleven
cases have been decided and have
been referred back to Congress with
the recommendation that they
should be paid. They went to the
judiciary committee and Randolph
Tucker is charged with the duty of
preparing report recommending their
payment. This will probably beforth-
coming when Mr.. Tucker sees fit to as
sumo his seat in Congress. 1t is said
that about thousand cases known
to exist are still back, the attorneys
having been unable to prepare
them rapidly enough to file
them up to the present time. Con-
gress can scarcely evade the payment
OF these claims now that the court to
which they were referred has unani-
mously determined that the govern
ment is liable. 1t is said, however, by
interested parties that if the State De-
partment and Department of Justice
had taken the pains to prepare q
brief for the government a different re.
suit might have been expected, but
that the case of the government was
so poorly prepared, while that of the
claimants was SO well set before the
court that that tribunal could do
nothing else than decide in favor
of the claimants. The eleven cases
which have been already settled have
involved about $4,000. No one can
have any idea OF what the final result
will be, but if Congress authorizes the
payment OF these adiudicated cases
there can be no reason on earth why
the others which are still to be de-
cided shall not be paid, and as several
millions of dollars are said to
be involved it is likely that
the aggregate appropriations required
for the payment OF these claims will
aid materially in reducing that
enormous surplus in the treasury
which seems to bother politicians so
much.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
Mormons and Anti-MOrmons.

The New York Telegram's Washing
ton dispatch says: There is q bitter
undercurrent fight going on between
the forces OF the anti-Mormon and
Mormon representatives. The for
mer are striving in every possible way
to have the Edmuuds bill passed by
the House at this session. while the
Mormon lobby are trying to prevent
it. The House committee has unanl-
mously declared in favor OF the bill,
and instructed Mr. Tucker to report
it, but ne is cot here. The Mormons
are spending their money freely for in.
fuential lobbyists to defeat the bill.
They have ID their employ some of
the most noted lawyers OF this city,
who are actively ST work in behalf Of
their clients. Among those here who
are fighting for the bill Is a Mr.. Bur-
nett and wife OF Utah, Kate Field and
her friends, Gov West, Mr.. Bascombe
and converted Mormon. who is used
as frigbtful example. The Gentiles
ol Utah subscribe each so cents per
week for the expenses Of their repre-.
sentetives After recess there will he
livsiy Eight made for the passage OF
the bill.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
EVICTTONS RESISTED.
a Mob Headed by Priests OVerpower I
Authcrifies

a Mob Headed by Priests Overpower the
Authorities.
Exciting scenes were witnessed on
the 8th in County Clare. While a
number of bailiffs, accompanied by
100 policemen, were evicting tenants
in Mayno, wild district, the chapel
bells were rung and horns sounded
and the people quickly assembled,
headed by priests. Three evicted ten
ants were reinstated as caretakers,
and in two instances the bailiffs had
to abandon their attempts to evict
tenants owing to the menaces of the
populace. The police were unable to
quell the disorders, and withdrew
from the scene. During the disturb
ance Father O'Flynn, Inspector
Heard and several policemen were in
jured by being hit with stones.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
THRASHING AN EDITOR.
Sensational Fight Over a Refusal to Re-
tract Newspaper Statements.

Sensational Fight Over Refusal to Re-
tract Newspaper Statements.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo, Jan. ga most
sensational fight occurred in this city
this morning in the office of O'Day
Bros, in the City Block, in which John
O'Day, second ice-president of the St.
Louis & San Francisco Railway and
his brother Ed. O'Day, and Mr..
strothers, editor of the Evening
Leader par icipated. The Leader
has been claiming recently that the
Morning Herald was owned by John
O'Day, and while pretending to sup
port the Democratic ticket, it has in
reality through the influence of the
Frisco road used its power
to defeat that ticket. Last Fri.
day the Leader published an
editorial attacking Mr.. O'Day person
ally. This brought Mr.. O'Day to this
city and this morning he and his
brother met Mr.. Strothers on the
street and invited him into O'Day's
Office to talk over g. little
matter of business. John O'Day
drew from his pocket paper, Mr..
Strothers says, which proved to be a
retractlon OF the Leaders former
statements, and asked Mr.. Strothers
to sign it. He refused Mr.. O'Day
then struck the editor on the
head with walking stick and
partly stunned him. but he closed up
on his assailant and fioored him. Ed.
O'Day then joined in the fight and
knocked Strothers down and after
wards inflicted several ugly wounds
upon the latter's face and body.
Strothers says that John O'Day then
drew revolver and would have shot
him but for the timely interfer-
ence of Walker G. Renshaw and
Mr.. McGregor who separated the COM
batants. After the trouble the O'Day
brothers drove rapidly to the Frisco
depot when the railroad magnate
took the train for St. Louis. War
rants have been issued for his arrest.
Strothers will survive his injuries.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
JOHN ROACH DYING.

The Same Malady Which Carried on
Grant Makes Him Victim.
A New York dispatch of the Sd says:
Mr.. Roach is beyond the reach OF med
ical help, save in the alleviation OF his
suferings, which have long been inces-
SAINT and intense. His disease is epi-
thelioma, and it's development has
been very similar to the case OF Gen.
Grant, the location, however, being
the roof OF the mouth instead OF the
throat. All efforts to arrest it's prog.
ress have failed, and only his powerful
constitution has sustained him so
long. He has never been q we'll man
since the entire nervous prostration
consequent upon his assignment eight
cen months ago. From that crushing
blow he could not rally, and cancer
began TO develop last January. In
March an operation was performed in
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
COAiSTING ACCIDENTS.
Several Boys Killed and Many Injured
in New England.

Several Boys Killed and Many Injured
in New England.
Twenty boys were coasting down
South Main Street in Rutland, VT,
on the 5th, on a traverse sled when
the sled struck the side OF a bridge at
the foot of the hill, throwing the boys
head-first into the stream. Cyril Gee,
/ 5 years old, was thrown twenty feet.
His head struck against stump and
the whole top of his skull Was crushed
in. John Kingsley, aged 12 years,
was internally injured and will prob
ably die. Thomas Shields, 12 years
old, was picked up unconscious. The
remaining seventeen boys were all
more or less bruised, but none serious
ly hurt. While three boys were coast
ing in Wentworth, Mass, their sled
ran into load of lumber and two OF
them were instantly killed. The other
cannot live.